I’m not going to accuse anyone from stealing yet another idea from The Simpsons because quite frankly I think the idea of a toy gun filled with ketchup or mustard is a great idea. The Condiment Gun might look like an oversized six-shooter, but it uses special sauce cartridges you can fill with your topping of choice. Just make sure it’s not something chunky like relish or salsa that could clog the barrel. Once the gun is loaded you just need to take aim at your food and squeeze the trigger for a controlled stream of deliciousness.
Of course it’s probably inevitable that your backyard BBQ will turn into a show-down at the OK Corral (if you happen to live at the OK Corral I guess) so hopefully they’ll eventually come out with a Condiment Shotgun that will allow you to keep the peace as chef and sheriff.
The Condiment Gun comes with 2 sauce cartridges and is available for pre-order from Firebox for about $30.
A kitchen scale is the best way to control portion size when you’re trying to shed a few pounds, but the Salter Nutri-Weigh & Go scale goes one step further for those who are seriously counting their calories. Besides the mass, the scale will also calculate the nutritional values of the food based on its weight including calories, protein, carbohydrates, total sugars, total fat, saturated fat, fibre, sodium, cholesterol, net carbohydrates, G.I value and percentage of calories from fat.
It has a database of over 1400 foods and a ‘word prompt’ feature for quickly finding the item you’re weighing. It will also keep track of your daily food intake for up to 7 days and has all the features you’d find in a regular food scale including aquatronic liquid measurement, add and weigh, metric/imperial conversion and auto or manual shut off.
While you’re groggily trying to make yourself breakfast in the morning, there’s nothing like the glare of over 200 Swarovski (i.e. fake) crystals to help jump-start your circadian rhythm. The rest of the (fairly ordinary) toaster is made of stainless steel and frosted glass, and one of the limited edition of 500 can be yours for a mere $300.
If you’d rather cut right to the chase, check this out:
That’s right, folks. It’s finally here… Inflatable toast! Now you don’t have to worry about actually buying bread for toast ever again. Simply inflate the toast with some nice hot air, enjoy*, and when you’re finished, deflate until you get hungry again. You get two (two!) slices of inflatable toast for just $6.50.
*If Steven K. Galson were here, I imagine he’d say that if you actually try and eat a piece of inflatable toast, you probably deserve to choke on the vinyl it’s made of.
About a year ago, a Seguin, Texas based roller skating rink owner by the name of John Howard started freezing leftover pickle juice and selling it to his patrons. And believe it or not they became quite popular, even to the point of selling out every weekend. So he decided to make his, um… ‘treats’ available to the rest of the world and what’s even more surprising is that his PickleSickle.com website ends up selling about 20,000 of them every month. Obviously the taste has to be the biggest attraction, because I can’t see people consuming frozen pickle juice just because it’s low in fat and sugar, but there are apparently other health benefits to pickle brine that I wasn’t aware of.
A recent study revealed that pickles blunted the blood-sugar spike by as much as 30% after a high-carb meal. Studies revealed that vinegar, much like that used in the pickling process, provided a balancing benefit to combat harmful insulin spikes. The spices used in the pickling process are also healthy. Pickling ingredients like garlic and dill help to control the growth of unhealthy bacteria in the body. And many other spices involved in the pickling have been known to have wide-ranging health properties as well. PickleSickles have no fat and have less than 1 gram of sugar.
And if regular Pickle Pops aren’t unique enough for your sophisticated palette, they also come in cherry, lemon-lime and jalapeño flavors though they’re not available on the website just yet. You can order a case of 16 Pickle Pops from the PickleSickle.com website for $17.95, or a box of 32 for $27.95.
Erbert & Gerbert’s recently celebrated 20 years of sandwich making by baking a cake. With candles. To blow out the candles, they constructed what they’re calling “the world’s largest and most powerful air vortex cannon:”
I couldn’t find any official dimensions of this thing, but according to the website, the candle cannon is substantially larger than a fat baby, and just a little bit smaller than three ninjas. And now, the official OhGizmo Upper Midwest Culinary Review Team brings you an exclusive in-depth review of Erbert & Gerbert’s sandwiches: they’re “good.”
For hundreds of years, ice cream and overhead lighting have been virtually synonymous. Think about it: incandescent light bulbs look exactly like scoops of ice cream, and what other possible explanation could there be for the soft-serve look of CFLs? Bring the two together forever with these hanging light fixtures shaped like ice cream cones, in your choice of waffle or sugar. Just do yourself a favor and hang them well out of reach, since they’re $80 a pop, and it’s way cheaper and less painful just to go find the nearest Cold Stone and pig out.
One of the keys to healthy eating is to simply not eat so much. Believe it or not most people don’t need to consume half a chicken at dinner in order to have enough energy to enjoy primetime TV. So these PortionPals silicon discs take any guesswork out of how big a proper portion really is. They come in 5 different versions covering breads, pastas & potatoes, meats, fish, chicken and even desserts. Each disc has a clearly marked shape you can use to measure and compare the amount of food you’re serving. They’re also dishwasher and microwave safe and can even be used as miniature cutting boards while you prepare your meal.
Why leave the measuring to Jenny Craig when it’s so much easier and cheaper to do it yourself? A pack of 5 PortionPals discs is available from Solutions for $17.95.
While Robot Coupe is actually an entire brand of catering equipment, I don’t think the word ‘robot’ is the best way to describe this automatic bread slicer. Just feed a baguette or similar sized loaf of bread into the vertical feeder and a stainless steel blade will cut anywhere from 180 to 360 slices a minute. You can also vary the thickness of the slices from 8mm up to 80mm for some serious ‘Texas toast’ action.
But the lack of arms and the fact that you have to manually feed this thing baguettes just keeps it out of the robot category for me. However if you own a catering business or sandwich shop this could still be a great replacement for a slow assistant, but all that time you save better be used to sell more sandwiches since the Robot Coupe Bread Slicer has a price tag of about $2,700.
While it’s technically not magic, Aerogel is still pretty cool. It’s a glass-like substance that’s composed of 99.8% air and uninterestingly enough was the very first thing I every wrote about for OhGizmo! All that air not only makes Aerogel amazingly light, but it also works as a fantastic insulator which is why Laken is now using it in their ISO 70 aluminum bottles.
The Aerogel-enhanced bottles will actually keep a beverage warm for twice as long as a standard aluminum-polyurethane bottle and will prevent your beverage from freezing when the temperature drops below zero. If that wasn’t enough, at 24 ounces it’s even half the weight of a traditional vacuum insulated bottle.
At one time Aerogel was incredibly expensive but I guess the price has come down since the Laken ISO 70 bottles only cost about $59.
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By Andrew Liszewski
